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The hallmark problem for conceptual engineering 概念工程的标志性问题
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/meta.70008
Manuel Gustavo Isaac
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Proofs, computers, and the a priori: Is there anything to fix? 校样、计算机和先验：有什么需要修正的吗？
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1111/meta.70006
Concha Martínez-Vidal
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Introduction to the special issue New Thoughts on Conceptual Engineering 《概念工程新思想》特刊导论
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/meta.70007
Xavier de Donato-Rodríguez
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Social externalism and the implementation challenge: Revising socially and politically significant terms 社会外部性和实施挑战：修改具有社会和政治意义的术语
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/meta.70005
Isabella Bartoli
{"title":"Social externalism and the implementation challenge: Revising socially and politically significant terms","authors":"Isabella Bartoli","doi":"10.1111/meta.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A central issue in conceptual engineering is the “implementation challenge”: the problem of how—or whether—conceptual revisions can be brought about, given our lack of control over the factors that determine meaning. Social externalism, which holds that semantic meaning is determined by the usage of experts within a linguistic community, seems to offer a path to controlled implementation. This paper argues that this route encounters serious obstacles in politically and socially significant cases. Drawing on Ball's (2020) distinction between Power Metasemantics and Virtue Metasemantics, the paper presents challenges for both perspectives. Power Metasemantics makes it very difficult for marginalized groups to bring about meaning change, as it is sensitive to how structural inequalities affect distributions of credibility and authority—though implementation remains possible. Virtue Metasemantics, on the other hand, faces epistemic and structural problems that may lend support to Cappelen's (2018) skepticism about implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46874,"journal":{"name":"METAPHILOSOPHY","volume":"56 3-4","pages":"389-406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/meta.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144935191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Conceptual engineering, language use, and the neutral implementation challenge 概念工程、语言使用和中性实现挑战
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1111/meta.70004
Delia Belleri
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Should metaphysics be (re)conceived as metalinguistic negotiation? 形而上学应该被（重新）视为元语言的协商吗？
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1111/meta.70003
Jonathan Knowles
{"title":"Should metaphysics be (re)conceived as metalinguistic negotiation?","authors":"Jonathan Knowles","doi":"10.1111/meta.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>According to many so-called <i>anti-representationalists</i>, once one gives up on the idea that language functions by standing in genuine semantic relations to bits of the world, many of the traditional projects of metaphysics lapse (see, e.g., Price 2004). Amie Thomasson also subscribes to anti-representationalism but has her own take on metaphysics. Traditional metaphysics is certainly suspect, but many questions of ontology can be resolved by what Thomasson calls the “easy” approach, which sees questions about existence as following from the understanding of our own language plus relevant empirical input. Thomasson argues further that we should construe what appear to remain contentious metaphysical issues not as concerning inquiries into hidden truths but as instead veiled “metalinguistic negotiations” (Plunkett and Sundell 2013) with pragmatic aims in mind. The present paper takes the view that this line threatens to render philosophy largely irrelevant to culture: to reduce the philosopher to a kind of political activist. But nor, it argues, is Thomasson's way of holding open the door for contentious metaphysical debate the only one for anti-representationalists.</p>","PeriodicalId":46874,"journal":{"name":"METAPHILOSOPHY","volume":"56 3-4","pages":"356-372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144935440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Changing “Sex” 改变“性”
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1111/meta.70001
Neil Gascoigne
{"title":"Changing “Sex”","authors":"Neil Gascoigne","doi":"10.1111/meta.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Can you change sex? Can you change the meaning of the concept “sex”? Does changing “sex” make changing sex possible? Would changing “sex” to make changing sex not only possible but also easy be a <i>good</i> thing? Might it, as some argue, help us bring about a new way of thinking and of acting that liberates us from the logic of heteronormativity and colonialism? This paper takes the coincidence of socio-cultural and theoretical interest in what are sometimes called “trans rights” as an invitation to reflect on what is involved in “re-engineering” concepts in general, and to inquire if the change to the episteme represented by a revision of the concept “sex” is progressive in the way envisaged by those who advocate for it.</p>","PeriodicalId":46874,"journal":{"name":"METAPHILOSOPHY","volume":"56 3-4","pages":"407-422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/meta.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144935515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Conceptual engineering: Conceptual innovation via conceptual refinement 概念工程：通过概念细化进行概念创新
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1111/meta.70002
Otávio Bueno
{"title":"Conceptual engineering: Conceptual innovation via conceptual refinement","authors":"Otávio Bueno","doi":"10.1111/meta.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mona Simion and Christoph Kelp (2020) have recently challenged the traditional conceptual engineering project. They defend a reorientation of this project that moves away from correcting conceptual shortcomings and emphasizes conceptual innovation instead. Central to their proposal is the role played by etiological functions. The present paper argues that this approach leaves them without a specific mechanism for conceptual innovation. It then proposes one such mechanism, which operates independently of functions, by identifying the crucial role of conceptual refinement. After developing the refinement-based approach, it illustrates how this approach works by considering instances of refined conceptual change from mathematics and logic as well as the sciences, and argues that the approach avoids the challenges faced by the function-based view.</p>","PeriodicalId":46874,"journal":{"name":"METAPHILOSOPHY","volume":"56 3-4","pages":"344-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/meta.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144935387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Rethinking philosophical methodology: Conceptual engineering meets Value Sensitive Design 重新思考哲学方法论：概念工程与价值敏感设计
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1111/meta.12730
Guido Löhr, Herman Veluwenkamp
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Converging ontologies: On some similarities between the Sāṃkhyakārikā and Plotinus's Enneads 聚合本体：论Sāṃkhyakārikā与普罗提诺的恩尼阿德之间的一些相似之处
IF 0.4 3区 哲学
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/meta.12728
Federico Divino
{"title":"Converging ontologies: On some similarities between the Sāṃkhyakārikā and Plotinus's Enneads","authors":"Federico Divino","doi":"10.1111/meta.12728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12728","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article endeavors to conduct a comparative analysis between the philosophical systems of Plotinus and classical Sāṃkhya, two distinct philosophical traditions characterized by their substantial historical and cultural contexts. The primary aim of the study is to discern and evaluate the fundamental themes inherent in these philosophical systems. To facilitate this comparative exploration, the article employs Plotinus's seminal work, the <i>Enneads</i>, as the representative source for Neoplatonism, and Īśvarakṛṣṇa's <i>Sāṃkhyakārikā</i>, recognized as the earliest extant treatise within the Sāṃkhya tradition. This comparative analysis seeks to illuminate both the commonalities and divergences that exist between Neoplatonism and Sāṃkhya, thereby providing insights into their historical evolution, the influence of cultural factors, and the nuanced interplay between Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. It emphasizes the paramount importance of acknowledging the intricate philosophical potential within religious traditions and their intricate dialogues with philosophical discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":46874,"journal":{"name":"METAPHILOSOPHY","volume":"56 2","pages":"264-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/meta.12728","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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